Speaker Biographies
Kevin A. Hassett is the director of economic policy studies and a resident scholar at AEI. He is also a weekly columnist for Bloomberg. Before joining AEI, Mr. Hassett was a senior economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and an associate professor of economics and finance at the Graduate School of Business of Columbia University. He was an economic adviser to the George W. Bush campaign in the 2004 presidential election, and was the chief economic adviser to Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) during the 2000 primaries. He has also served as a policy consultant to the U.S. Department of the Treasury during both the former Bush and Clinton administrations. Mr. Hassett is a member of the Joint Committee on Taxation’s Dynamic Scoring Advisory Panel. He is the author, coauthor or editor of six books on economics and economic policy, including the AEI book on tax reform, Toward Fundamental Tax Reform. He has published scholarly articles in the American Economic Review, the Economic Journal, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Public Economics, and many other professional journals. His popular writings have been published in the Wall Street Journal, the Atlantic Monthly, USA Today, the Washington Post, and numerous other outlets. His economic commentaries are regularly aired on radio and television, including recent appearances on the Today Show, CBS’s Morning Show, Newshour with Jim Lehrer, Hardball, Moneyline, and Power Lunch.
Lawrence B. Lindsey is president and chief executive officer of The Lindsey Group and visiting scholar at AEI. He has held leading positions in government, academia, and business. Before forming The Lindsey Group, he held the position of assistant to the president and director of the National Economic Council at the White House and was the chief economic adviser to candidate George W. Bush during the 2000 presidential campaign. Mr. Lindsey also served as a governor of the Federal Reserve System from 1991 to 1997, as special assistant to the president for domestic economic policy during the George H.W. Bush administration, and as senior staff economist for tax policy at the Council of Economic Advisers during President Reagan's first term. Mr. Lindsey served for five years on the economics faculty of Harvard University and held the Arthur F. Burns Chair for Economic Research at AEI. From 1997 until 2001 he was managing director of Economic Strategies, a global consulting firm. He is the author of numerous articles and two books: The Growth Experiment and Economic Puppet Masters. Mr. Lindsey is currently a visiting scholar at AEI.
Zanny Minton-Beddoes is The Economist’s economics correspondent in Washington, D.C. She covers the American economy and issues surrounding globalization (trade and capital flows). Before moving to Washington in April 1996, she was The Economist’s emerging-markets correspondent based in London. She joined The Economist in 1994 after spending two years as an economist at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), where she worked on macroeconomic adjustment programs in Africa and the transition economies of Eastern Europe. Before joining the IMF, she worked as an adviser to the Minister of Finance in Poland. Ms. Minton-Beddoes has written extensively about international financial issues, including enlargement of the European Union, the future of the IMF, and economic reform in emerging economies. She has published in Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy, contributed chapters to several conference volumes, and edited Emerging Asia (Asian Development Bank, 1997), a book on the future of emerging-markets in Asia. In May 1998 she testified before Congress on the introduction of the euro. She is a regular panelist on Tucker Carlson Unfiltered (PBS) and a commentator on Marketplace (NPR). She has also appeared on CNN, the MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour, CNBC, and Public Interest. She is a trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a member of the Research Advisory Board of the Committee for Economic Development.
Mark M. Zandi is the chief economist at and co-founder of Economy.com, Inc. He directs Economy.com’s research and consulting activities. Economy.com provides economic research and consulting services to businesses, governments and other institutions. The firm also maintains online databases of economic and financial time series, and operates a number of web sites, including The Dismal Scientist, Freelunch.com and Research@economy.com. Mr. Zandi’s research interests include macroeconomics and financial and regional economics. Recent areas of research include studying the determinants of mortgage foreclosure and personal bankruptcy, an analysis of the economic impact of various tax and government spending policies, and an assessment of the appropriate policy response to bubbles in asset markets. In addition, Mr. Zandi conducts regular briefings on the economy. He is frequently quoted in national and regional news outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Business Week, Barron’s, Fortune, Money, USA Today, Investor’s Business Daily, Newsweek, CBS MarketWatch, and the American Banker. He has also appeared or spoken on Wall Street Week, ABC’s World News Tonight, CBS’s Evening News, CNN, NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, NPR’s Morning Edition, and ABC, CBS, and CNN Radio.
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